Hi! I swear this ask is sent out of genuine curiosity even though the tone may come off as accusatory because I don’t know how to phrase it in a less pointed way.
These paraphrased quotes I am referencing are taken from your answer to a previous answer to an ask sent by an anon regarding whether you’d ever release Adobe programmes for macOS users. You previously mentioned that “[you are] not a Mac user [your]self” and “[you] refuse to release or offer anything that [you] have not thoroughly tested [your]self, so that [you] can actually vouch for the safety/authenticity of the downloads/cracks that [you] offer.”
May I please inquire how you thoroughly test the windows OS versions of the adobe programmes you release? I am asking because I am assuming Windows products are not invulnerable to Apple products’ heavier than Fort Knox security?
Thank you for any insights you’re willing to provide on this!
Hi, hello! No worries at all, 'non. I understand the intention perfectly fine, and there is no tone— but even if there was, that'd be perfectly fine as well. I mean ultimately, you guys quite literally have to blindly trust my word that these downloads of mine have nothing ill hidden in them. Now granted, I hope that over the many years I've been doing this (roughly a decade by now, actually), I've proven that my downloads are clean, and that through that, I've garnered a bit of a reputation. But it's because of this 'blind faith' that, quite honestly, you're fully allowed to question me on how I test-run these things before putting them up for official download.
But in the end, my answer to this is really quite simple: I don't release/offer anything to the public without testing them first-hand myself, with which I mean that I run my own offered downloads on at least two of my own devices. They get installed and run on both my desktop, laptop for numerous hours for a period of at least 12 to 24 hours. I restart them regularly, leave then running in the background, and click around as per my knowledge in the programs at hand. After that period of time, I tend to uninstall them from my main devices unless I personally make use of said programs, and then install them on either my external SSD, or HDD to see if anything pops up there as I let them run, and they generally remain installed there so that I can see if trial notifications pop up over time, or if I can reproduce issues people may contact me about so I can then troubleshoot. All in all, they go through quite a test-trial on my end, and there is never a single program that I've offered that I haven't run myself first.
I hope that with this, you can understand why I'm a little hesitant on offering Mac downloads, it all comes down to the fact that I don't like not being able to vouch for my own downloads, I just think that's bad 'work ethics', if that makes sense. This is why when I do give out a Mac download, it's after heavy requests, but also with warnings that I have not been able to test them myself. But for future reassurance to the Mac users: once I've moved for the final time for some years, I want to allocate a specific drive on my desktop, or a partition on my drive to an installation of Mac via dual-boot. This, however, will not be able to happen until October at earliest, but it all depends on my plans system-wise. But I'll keep you guys in the loop!
